Actually it's more like 1857 with the first British Indian Regiments.
Crazy MoFos. Legend has it if a man says he isn't afraid of dying he is either lying or a Ghurka.
Of course smoking a Ghurka cigar on the other likely implies you wish to die....
Of nausea....
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My stepfather used to tell a story about the Gurkha regiment .
They were stealthy ( to say the least ) ... Gurkhas would at night be able to tell a German soldier from a British soldier by feeling their bootlaces ... if you tied your boots wrong you would get your throat slit .
Stepfather was a character himself ... joined the British army in 1939 as a private and finished the war as a full colonel ( said if the war had lasted 18 more months he would have been a general ) .
Not a joke but it bears telling
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Derrek
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Thank you for sharing, Derrek. I always have more respect for those of rank that literally started out at the bottom and earned every step they took, really something to be proud of.
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